Final Exam Submissions
- Big Nerd
- Apr 13, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: May 6
Final Exam Canvas Link
Link your blogpost from below to Canvas Week Nine "Final Exam Blogpost" Submission Container.
Here we are, Nerdlings! For this last assignment, you will synthesize sources: combining your examples from the four posts with your Postmodernized interpretations of the Literary Tradition source you selected.
That means, DIGITAL PUBLISHING.
How do you "POSTMODERNIZE" your selected Literary Tradition source if it is Anglo-Saxon Literature & Beowulf? or if it is Romantic Literature & Victor Frankenstein? or if it is Medieval Literature & The Friar from Canterbury Tales? Glad you asked.
Consider what your character or historical figure would think about this stuff. How would they integrate Postmodern art and literature into their worldview? How would this change them?
Find quotes from your source that support your character's or historical figure's evolution from the story where they began & the literary tradition they are from to...well...THIS!.
You'll identify each quote's Style Qualities and Narrative Elements/Rhetorical Elements. You'll link them to some basic L2 commentary.
You'll relate the details from your Literary Tradition source to Postmodern elements & DIGITAL GOODIES from your COMMENTS for Source #1, Source#2, Source #3, and Source #4
Then, you get to describe how the meaning, effect, and purpose of those quotes could be transformed - "Postmodernized" - by analyzing the original traits through the lens of Postmodern qualities. Check out Ima Nerd's model for some inspiration.
You'll finish it, natch, with a Works Cited of your 5 primary sources and the images, videos, gifs, and memes you included in the final exam blogpost.
Using your Literary Tradition source and details from your 4 posts, go to the bottom of this page to write a blog post below for your Final Exam.
It's an argument (your perspectives) about the four works you selected for commenting here, your evidence from your Literary Tradition source, and your content from external sources (how you think all these relate - even the silly relationships!)
A Google doc is a great place to spell-check, for auto saving, etc. But, be aware: if you produce your post on a Google doc, you might have to re-link and reload digital components to publish it as a blog post.
After you publish here, upload your complete blogpost to Canvas in the "Final Exam Submission Container." This is where Big Nerd will score and award you credit.
To Submit this work on Canvas, you have TWO upload options:
1. Upload a Google Doc to Canvas with all digital media intact, then
2. Directly link to your blogpost here to Canvas (click the snowman on this site & "share post" for a live link).
Now for the Final Exam Template:
Want some guidance organizing your blogpost into a coherent argument? Check out Ima Nerd's Model-Template:
I think your characterization of Heathcliff is hilarious and his unknowing nature in your text seems very on character. I also really like your monkey gif, very very funny I like. Great analysis probably the funniest one I've read thus far.
This is an element of gothic literature that has been carried over to postmodernism. In “Humility” by Gorillaz, they use the different camera angles to encapsulate the ideas of everyone, not just the main characters. Additionally, in the poem “[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in)]” by E.E. Cummings" this is a great way to tie these two pieces together in a way that makes a lot of sense. The photo of the dead person is a perfect way to present black humor especially in the context of the story. Great examination, however I did not imagine this is how Mary Shelley would sound, very interesting personification of her character.
As a knight I have fought many battles. And in each one of them I fought with honor and “but I will never strike a knight who has fallen. God defends me from such dishonor!” is such a tough line I wish I had come up with that. I also like all the references to Nerd Central, I didn't think to quote that when it is literally in the palms of our hands. As a whole it is extremely well done, just curious what other knight content relates to this essay.
Why My Romantic Wings are Actually Postmodern Props - From Gabriel Himself
IReallyDoThis6 - 6th Period
The Mall Cop of Eden
For centuries, you Romantics have painted me as this "Noble Sentinel,” the ultimate heroic hunk guarding the "Sublime" beauty of the Garden with a flaming sword. But let’s be real, after a few millennia on the clock, I’ve realized I’m less of a cosmic warrior and more of a mall cop in a simulation. I mean lets be real guys, I don't even like fire, or fighting, or any of this Heavenly defending nonsense. When you swap the Romantic lens, which is all about big emotions and grand destiny, for a Postmodern lens, my whole life looks like a…
The Dagger of the Mind
Is this a blog post which I see before me macbeth, Come, let me clutch thee. To kill a King is but a trifle compared to the slaughter of a the deadline. In the dark kitchen of my ambition, I find that "killing" is much like writing: it requires a sharp edge, a steady hand, and a total disregard for the consequences. just like this floating knife infront of me?
Source 1
The poem leans heavily into Metafiction/Poioumena by focusing on the craft of the performance. as Macbeth I find that acutely aware of his role as a creator of experience. He "rehearses in his mind a new device" and looks into a bad conundrum because I…